Here’s a list of complete books available for free as pdf documents right here on this here blogopedia, arranged in chronological order; dates are publication in the original language. Click here for a Tech Note on these books. Click on the book title to go to that post. More books coming!
3rd Century BC:
The Mimes of Herodas (1906 verse translation)
The Mimes of Herondas (1921 prose translation)
1509:
In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
1600:
Foole Upon Foole by Robert Armin
1753:
The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni
1787:
1797
1833:
Deburau: Histoire du Théâtre à Quatre Sous par Jules Janin
1838:
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, edited by Charles Dickens
1858:
The History of Court Fools by John Doran
1859:
Souvenir des Funambules par Jules Champfleury
1860:
Masques et Bouffons de Maurice Sand
The History of the Harlequinade by Maurice Sand
1869:
L’Homme qui Rit / The Man who Laughs by Victor Hugo
1880:
1883:
Il Goldoni e la Commedia dell’Arte di Alfonso Aloi
1885:
Fous et Bouffons de Paul Moreau
1889:
Mimes et Pierrots: Notes et Documents de Paul Hugounet
Pantomimes de Gaspard et Ch. Deburau
1890:
The Delight Makers by Adolf Bandelier
Carlo Gozzi e la Commedia Dell Arte di Ernesto Masi
1897:
Le Théâtre des Funambules: Ses Mimes, Ses Acteurs et Ses Pantomimes Depuis Sa Fondation, Jusqu’à Sa Démolition par Louis Péricaud
1904:
Le Maschere Italiane Nella Commedia dell’Arte e Nel Teatro di Goldoni di Elvira Ferretti
1912:
The Commedia Dell’Arte by Winifred Smith
1913:
Goldoni: A Biography by H.C. Chatfield-Taylor
The Fools of Shakespeare by Frederick Warde
1918:
Deburau: A Comedy by Sacha Guitry
1920:
Goldoni & the Venice of his Time by Jospeh Kennard
1923:
Studies in the Development of the Fool in the Elizabethan Drama by Olive Mary Busby
1935:
Masks & Marionettes by Joseph Kennard
